The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-21
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NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
The Republican caucus at Hartford
re-nominated Joseph II. Hawley for
the Senate.
A vein of natural gas was reached
ut Marion, Ind, Thursday at a depth
of 518 feet.
So deep is the snow in western Scot
land that out-of-door labor has been
largely suspended. e
Major G. w. Cole, the revivalist,
has within week made three humid
red converts at Sedalia. Missouri.
The Democratic legislative caucus at
Indianapolis selected Judge David
Turpie as its candidate for senator.
Edward Olney. professor of mathe-
mates in the University Of Michigan,
was found dead in bed from heart dis
ease Sunday.
The screw steamship Celtic Monarch
was on January 2 abandoned at sea,
after the passengers and crew had
been transferred.
An attempt to reduce wages in the
tobacco factory of T.. Lorillard. at Jer-
soy City, caused strike by thirty-tive
hundred employees.
Arthur j. McQuade, one of the
Doodle aldermen OF New York, was
Monday taken to Sing Sing prison to
serve seven years.
The Irish societies of Boston have
decided to parade on st. Patrick's Day
this year. The parade has been aban-
doned for two years.
In tenement house at Troy three
persons were overcome by odOrlesS gas
while cOnversing. Their corpses were
found in their chairs.
James z. Holmes, a mOonshiner who
has long been the terror of northern
Arkansas, has been placed in the peni-
tertiary of that state.
The signal service at st. Paul reports
temperature of 90 degrees below zero
at O'Clock Tuesday morning the
lowest point OF the winter.
A freight train reaching Paducah,
Kentucky, carried n burning car Of
cotton, in which were found the char
red corpses of four tramps.
The police of Berlin have forbidden
the sale Of pamphlet issued by a So
cialistic society ia Chicago in denun-
citation of the anarchists trial.
The livestock commissioners of ILL
nois have made q scorching reply TO
the recent attack OF N. j. Colma5i, the
commissioner Of agriculture
Professor Il. l.. YOumans, the IA
nous writer and lecturer on scientific
subjects. died Tuesday morning, in
New York. in his sixty-sixth year.
j. J. Upchurch. the founder of the
order of United Workmen, now having
a membership of two hundred thou
sand. died Tuesday at Steeleville, Mo.
The British gunboat Firm was
wrecked on the Northumberland
coast Nineteen members of the crew
were rescued by the life-saving service.
Mrs. Logan Monday paid off the
mortgage on the Washington resi-
dence, and the children voluntarily
gave her all their interest in the prem
ises.
III. Il. Blackstone, who embezzled
$76, 900 from bank in Portland. Me-,
was captured in Winnipe, by a
sheriff, who followed his wife from
home.
The Dominion Parliament has been
dissolved and new elections ordered.
The nominations will take place on the
l5th Of February and the polling on
the odd.
A jury at Portage, Wis, acquitted
Brakeman Wells of responsibility for
the death of nineteen persons in the
recent collision at East Rio, on the St.
Paul road.
Fifty lodges OF Crow Indians, in a
condition next to starvation, are camp
ed at Clark's fork of the Yellowstone.
They are eating cattle perishing in the
snow-drifts.
A syndicate Of Amsterdam bankers
has purchased nine. hundred square
miles of timber land in western
Florida. on which to found a colony Of
Hollanders.
The International Union of Brick
layers and Masons, now holding ses-
sion at Washington, disclaims all af-
filiation with socialists, anarchists, or
communists.
Jonas Gilman Clark, Of Worcester,
Mass, has given 81 ,000, 900 to that city
to found an university, and has al
ready petitiOned the legislature for an
act of incorporation.
The funeral. OF. John Roach, held in
New York Thursday, was attended by
four hundred employees of the Morgan
iron-works and sixty-six leading citi-
zens of Chester, Penn.
Ranking high among the recent
transfers Of mineral lands IN the south
crn states Is the sale Of controlling
interest in the town Of Admission, Ala
bama, for 90, 000, 900
John b. Hoxie, for the past twenty
seven years q leader In the livestock
trade at Chicago, Is about to transfer
his reeideroa " we~sc~viiio Tevaa fnr